Broadband Expert Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A recent study has suggested that for many young couples in Britain the availability of broadband services could be reducing the passion in the relationship. For many young couples in Britain passion and romance is an important part of the relationship. However there is evidence to suggested that the availability of broadband coupled with the rising [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The long awaited WiFi P2P has been announced. This is how Om Malik describes it. The Wi-Fi Alliance today issued a new standard to augment Wi-Fi, called Wi-Fi Direct, that turns a Wi-Fi chip into a mini access point. The technology allows your Wi-Fi gadgets to talk to one another without having to get on [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Thanks to agreements like BTFon with BT, SFR, Zon and other carriers and to the introduction of the Fonera 2.0n, Fon is now profitable. That is great news. But we still don’t have money to spend on advertising. We are only doing some advertising through partners. For example in Spain, we [...]
open... (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Interesting : BT’s wifi network has reached half a million hotspots. Fon has made a major contribution toward its growth, since about 90% of the BT hotspots are BT Fon. The rate of growth is such that, together with BT, we are on the way to one million hotspots. This is the goal for February 2010. Suppose, now, that people use some of those million hotspots to download copyright material: how...
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
BT’s wifi network has reached half a million hotspots. Fon has made a major contribution toward its growth, since about 90% of the BT hotspots are BT Fon. The rate of growth is such that, together with BT, we are on the way to one million hotspots. This is the goal for February 2010. With this [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
BT has revealed it has half a million Wi-Fi hotspots in the UK and Ireland. The ISP said this was halfway towards its target of one million. The sites include hotspots provided by the BT FON Wi-Fi Community, BT Openzone, 12 'wireless' city centres, plus BT Openzone hotspots via the BT Business Hub. BT Openzone, along with The Cloud, is available to O2 iPhone customers as part of pay monthly contracts...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
As the United Kingdom's most prominent Wi-Fi hotspot provider, British Telecom are celebrating that fact that they own 500,000 sites throughout Britain and Ireland. The hotspots in homes, businesses and city centres are provided by the BT FON Wi-Fi Community, and BT Openzone. The network of hotspots work via the BT Business Hub, and plenty of big named customers including the Hilton hotels, Thistle,...
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Half-way to its 2009 target BT has announced that it's half-way towards its target of putting together a network of 1,000,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots in 2009. 500,000 hotspots are now available at homes, offices and city centres in the UK and Ireland. That total includes hotspots from the BT FON network, its Openzone hotspots, 12 "wireless" city centres and BT Openzone hotspots that have been...
Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
Sites include hotspots provided by the BT FON Wi-Fi Community, BT Openzone BT is halfway towards its goal this year of building a million-strong Wi-Fi hotspot network, with high speed public wireless broadband now available at 500,000 homes, businesses and city centres in the UK and Ireland the company has announced.
The Telecom (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
BT has announced plans to launch Wi-Fi Openzones at major UK holiday parks this summer, including 3 Pontin’s sites, 77 Camping and Caravanning Club sites, and Coastfields Leisure sites. Visitors to these sites can use any Wi-Fi enabled device to access the Openzone connection for surfing the net, making cheap VoIP calls, or online gaming. Most users [...]
T3 (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
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TechRadar (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
BT will be offering Wi-Fi hotspots for the 'stay-cationers' that are flooding to UK campsites and caravan parks, but expect to pay unless you're with O2 or Openzone. Three Pontin's sites, 77 Camping and Caravanning Club sites and locations in Skegness will all get BT Wi-Fi after a partnership with Wicoms was agreed. The credit crunch has encouraged many who would normally venture abroad to stay at...
Broadband Expert Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2009
Five months after a similar business user oriented service was released, BT has now launched a consumer based mobile broadband package for its customers. The new mobile broadband dongle is slightly different from the old white version with a new and more stylish silver and black design and access to the internet from almost anywhere in [...]
Cheap Broadband Deals (Free subscription) | 05/05/2009
A recent announcement from BT has thrilled the mobile broadband users of the UK, and it is all about the telecom giant of Britain partnering with Starbuck coffee shop chain to deliver BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspot services through all its 678 outlets. Significant news here is that all O2 Apple iPhone users could [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 04/28/2009
Yesterday BT, who is a fixed and mobile operator who owns its fixed network and resells GSM/3G services made an announcement that explains why it makes sense for BT, SFR, Zon and many other operators to team up with Fon. As the review that I quote says: £15.65pm is all it now takes to secure [...]
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